E-retailers ranked in the just-released Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide grew online sales 13.5% last year—more than four times faster than store sales, but slower than the U.S. e-commerce market as a whole.
In 2015, it was very much a good news-, bad news-type scenario for the largest online retailers in North America.
In some ways it was the biggest year yet, data from the just-released Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide shows. Shoppers in the United States spent $341.7 billion on retail purchases on the web in 2015, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, up 14.6% from 2014—a rate that’s nearly five times as fast as the 3.1% growth in store sales.
